Drains.......

[Boggert]

Oh what a day...

Well there I was getting some coal in, when the good lady flushed the toilet and I noticed water coming up through the drain by the coal bunker... Blast I have a blocked drain... so here my day started :roll:

I open the inspection cover (IC) near that drain... It was Full :shock: So down the line to the next... again Full! :shock:

So down to the main IC by the road... totally full  :shock:

By now I have all the IC off and its not looking good but at least I know where the blockage is. So up to my parents to get my Rods.

After stirring up the porridge :-> nothing happened, blast this is going to be tougher than I think, by now the neighbour has show up as he could smell the problem :-> :shock:

We debate the best course of action when suddenly a loud "BURP" from the drain :lol: and then movement  :dance: it all started to move at rapid speed to the point I had to jump back as a torrent of sewage shot down the backed up pipes and sprayed out of the man hole  :lol: what with the fountain of brown stuff and the noise I'm in stitches laughing.

God I hate drains :hurryup:

[Disco Matt]

At least the worst I've had to deal with was clean water run-off from the garden filling a drain with gravel!

[muddyjames]

sounds like a pleasant day then!

I stayed on a large boat this weekend which was built for accomodation groups of people and bunkbed cabins downstairs and kitchen/seeting up stairs. All very lovely except, in the females showers there was some brown stuff that had bubbled up through the drain and didnt smell too clever. It cant have been sewage as the loos were on the main land (this boat never moves and only floats for an hour at high tide). We think sand must have got into the bilge at some point or something but it didnt half pong.

[narked]

We have a waste services company based just outside the village. One of my mates is their fitter for the lorries. One day they were short-handed, so he went out jetting drains, told the bloke at the controls to gently ease the pressure up, but instead it got put on full blast. He got covered in the spray, standing at the manhole holding the hose!

[hobbit]

Sounds like someone dropped a container of andrews down there somewhere :lol:

[DaveDavies]

Had a few brown 'fountains' to avoid when I was a builder - usually a good job for a unspecting appentice  :roll:

Best (or worst) was a blocked soil vent pipe to a multi storey building, been backing up for weeks, now that had some head of pressure...

[hobbit]

Hey Mr B

Look what happened after they cleared down the hill
 :lol:
http://www.mud-club.com/forum/index.php/topic,54747.0.html

[Boggert]

Hey Mr B

Look what happened after they cleared down the hill
 :lol:
http://www.mud-club.com/forum/index.php/topic,54747.0.html

Do you Know I wondered where it all went... Theres my answer! :-> :D :hurryup:

[BK]

I used to do this for a living with a 32 tonne jet-vac wagon for a well known company whos wagons are painted pink and white,you probs could have saved yourself a whole load of hassle clearing it yourself,because.........if you say the sewer was blocked in the "main" on the main road youd probably find that the drains are "adopted"by the water board in your area  in other words its the water boards problem and they would have cleared it for free,DO NOT in any circumstances EVER go down ANY deep drains more than 1 metre deep with out proper equipment,I have seen guys I work with gassed by methane gas lurking in the sewers and believe me,one lungful and you are dead!!!!..........so next time your drains block,especially in the "main" PICK UP THE PHONE PLEASE (but not to dynorod cos there S***E)........... [-X [-X [-X